Reno, NV MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

15,504	9,247	479	54,868	14,738	244,650
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+83	259.4%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+1,917	200.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+99	125.3%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+3	+28,740	110.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+270	87.1%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+304	82.6%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+386	63.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	+1,044	61.6%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+209	53.7%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+2	+600	42.9%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+1,061	38.9%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	+29	21.5%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+4	+1,904	19.4%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	+171	14.4%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+212	12.5%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+9	6.7%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-1	+21	6.3%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	+65	4.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+6	1.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	0	-7	-2.9%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-58	-6.4%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-212	-10.5%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	-300	-16.7%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-9	-18.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-88	-42.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-377	-65.9%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-145	-90.6%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+1	n.a.	n.a.
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-31	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+20	+35,903	+63.8%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 254,667; in 2000 it was 339,486. The total population changed 33.3%. The adherent totals for 1990 (57,924) represent 22.7% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (94,836) include 27.9% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 28 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 28 groups had 56,240 adherents in 1990 and 92,143 adherents in 2000, for a change of 63.8%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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